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Diagnostics and genomics company ProPhase Labs is building a genomics lab as part of an effort to expand its in-house clinical and genomics testing capabilities.

Labcorp won the first FDA approval for a non-prescription multi-analyte COVID-19 test, plus four more updates on the lab company since March:

Imran Shams and Lourdes Navarro, both 63 and owners of Baldwin Park, Calif.-based Matias Clinical Laboratory, were indicted for their alleged roles in a $214 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Justice Department said.

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Daphne Martin, lab director for San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and Templeton, Calif.-based Twin Cities Community Hospital, was honored as part of Tenet Healthcare's annual recognition program, Paso Robles Daily News reported May 30.

Jae Lee, 51, former CEO of the now-defunct Northwest Physicians Laboratory in Bellevue, Wash., was sentenced to two years in prison and $7.6 million in restitution for a drug testing kickback scheme that cost the government more than $6.5 million,…

Six Texas physicians were added to a lab testing kickback and false claims lawsuit that originally named 18 people, including four former healthcare executives, and two lab companies as defendants, the Justice Department said May 26.

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